Faculty Guide

Title

Harry S. Levitan Director of Teacher Education and Professor of the Practice of Education

Education
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Expertise

Teacher and administrator education. Education policy.

Awards and Honors

The Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellent in Teaching (2008)

Elected Vice President of Public Schools for Tomorrow (2006)

Recognition of Dedicated Service to The Harvard Principals' Center (2006)

Summit Award, Colonie Youth Center (2001)

Selected as one of the 100 Women of Excellence "who have bravely pioneered change in the community within the last 100 years" by the Albany Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce (2000)

Award for Service to Students and Schools, NYS Council of School Superintendents (1999)

Administrator of the Year, Capital District Association of Women Administrators (1994 - 1995)

Courses Taught

ED	100b	Exploring Teaching (Secondary)
ED	101b	Elementary School Curriculum and Teaching: Arts, Multiculturalism, and Other Topics
ED	104a	Secondary School: Theory into Practice
ED	110e	Practice Teaching: Secondary School
ED	112e	Practice Teaching: Preschool
ED	155b	Education and Social Policy
ED	264a	Foundations of Education
ED	265a	Field Internship
ED	265b	Field Internship
HBRW	256	Instructional Leadership Practicum

Scholarship

Levenson, Marya. "Section on State Education Policy." The Encyclopedia of New England Culture, Education Section. Yale University Press, 2006 (forthcoming)

Levenson, Marya, ed. National Advisory Editorial Board. 2008.

Levenson, Marya. "A Standards Base and the New Three R's." The School Administrator September, 2007.

Levenson, Marya, Paul Kelleher. "Can School Culture Change?." (2004).

Levenson, Marya. "I Know That We Need Good Administrators but I Wouldn't Want to Be One." Capital Area School Development Association Newsletter (2001).

Levenson, Marya. "Why Current Assessments Don't Measure Up." The Harvard Education Letter (2000).

Levenson, Marya. Annual Evaluation of the North Colonie School District, Yearly Analysis of Longitudinal Data Relating to Student Outcomes and Other Measures. 2000.